Images of Time
Mind, Science, Reality
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book reviews a great range of Images of Time, that is, theories of time, from a diversity of perspectives: historical, religious, biological, mathematical and scientific. It trains the reader to develop a critical ability to distinguish those Images of...
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This book reviews a great range of Images of Time, that is, theories of time, from a diversity of perspectives: historical, religious, biological, mathematical and scientific. It trains the reader to develop a critical ability to distinguish those Images of Time that are metaphysical and those that could in principle be put to empirical test.
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Have you ever wondered about Time: what it is or how to discuss it? If you have, then you may have been bewildered by the many different views and opinions in many diverse fields to be found, such as physics, mathematics, philosophy, religion, history, and science fiction novels and films. This book will help you unravel fact from fiction. It provides a broad survey of many of these views, these images of time, covering historical, cultural, philosophical, biological, mathematical and physical images of time, including classical and quantum mechanics, special and general relativity and cosmology.This book gives you more than just a review of such images. It provides the reader a basis for judging the scientific soundness of these various images. It develops the reader's critical ability to distinguish Images of Time in terms of its contextual completeness. Differentiating between metaphysical images (which cannot be scientifically validated) and those that could, in principle, be put to empirical test. Showing that mathematical and classical mechanical images are more complete, and genuine quantum mechanics based images have the greatest degree of contextual completeness. Through the use of a simple algorithm, the reader can decide the classification of any of the images of time discussed in this book. These distinctions are of particular importance in this day and age, when we are flooded by a plethora of competing Images of Time. Many of these have no scientific basis or empirical support or content. This book will be of value not only to philosophers, scientists and students, but also to the general reader interested in this fundamental topic, because it introduces a method of distinguishing between science fiction and science fact.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Images of Time “
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Observers and time
- 3: Subjective images of time
- 4: Cultural images of time
- 5: Literary images of time
- 6: Objective images of time
- 7: Mathematical images of time
- 8: Illusionary images of time
- 9: Causal images of time
- 10: Physics and time
- 11: Biological time
- 12: The dimensions of time
- 13: The architecture of time
- 14: Absolute time
- 15: The reparametrization of time
- 16: Origins of relativity
- 17: Special relativity
- 18: Generalized transformations
- 19: General relativistic time
- 20: Time travel
- 21: Imaginary time
- 22: Irreversible time
- 23: Discrete time
- 24: Time and quanta
- 25: Temporal correlations
- 26: Time reversal
- 27: Quantized spacetime
- 28: Epilogue
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von George Jaroszkiewicz
George Jaroszkiewicz is Associate Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK. He previously held positions as a Postdocotral Research Fellow at the University of Kent, Cantery, UK, and at the University of Oxford, UK.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: George Jaroszkiewicz
- 2016, 322 Seiten, Maße: 16,1 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198718063
- ISBN-13: 9780198718062
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
There is a great deal of factual information, systematically and concisely presented and appropriately referenced a valuable addition to the literature on the Science of Time taken in the general sense. It deserves a place in any theoretical physics library. I expect it to provoke and stimulate much thought. G.W. Gibbons, Contemporary Physics
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